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Lead Frontend Architect
PTR Global · New York, NY
Pay · estimate~$60k – $80kMarket rate · not set by employer
PostedNov 13, 2026
LevelSenior
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Lead Frontend Architect – React.js (Equities Trading & Risk Platform) • This is the most appropriate title because the role requires hands-on React development, enterprise UI…
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Lead Frontend Architect – React.js (Equities Trading & Risk Platform)
🔹This is the most appropriate title because the role requires hands-on React development, enterprise UI architecture, technical leadership, and experience building data-intensive trading applications .
🏢Job Description
🔹Client is developing a risk application spanning the entire Global Institutional Equity Division front office.
🔹This application presents real time and historic risk and P&L to traders and risk managers, enable drill down into risk and P&L detail, pivot the data in numerous ways, and interact with other trading tools in the front office.
🔹The application is being built in React with a GigaSpaces middle tier. The GUI is to be highly configurable and thin, enabling a fast turnaround on new panels for different use cases.
🎯Requirements
🔹Minimum 5 years of postacademic work experience with frontend solutions (Angular and/or React, nodeJS, JS frameworks)
🔹Excellent written and verbal communication skills
🔹Strong experience in managing User Interfaces for data intensive platforms
🔹Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Design patterns, Architecture and Application Integration
🔹Strong experience in architecting scalable applications that can support 1000+ users at a time
🔹Comfortable spending part of the time on the trading desk to help traders, solicit feedback, and advocate for the platform once familiar with capabilities
🔹Handson experience with distributed tech stack with modern tools of development
🔹Handson experience with core dev-ops tooling and best practices and manage this at a platform level
🔹Handson experience for managing large UI products from delivery, code-quality and maintenance perspective
🔹Handson experience with automated test frameworks - Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Playwright, Protractor etc. & Test-Driven Development
🔹Experience in managing the deployments and build frameworks
🔹Experience in managing the large codebase/Monorepos supporting development of the UI platform, with large number of developers contributing continuously to the platform.
🔹Experience in building and owning common reusable components for UIs
🔹Experience in collaborating with global stakeholders for product development
🔹Ability to manage the UX designers and translate UX designs into actual product implementation
🔹Ability to coordinate across large team and ensure product development per multi-year roadmap;